AMD Radeon RX 7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7800 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 138% (2800MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 +852%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2800 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

1664

240

TMUs

104

128

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

358.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

672.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

86.02 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

43.01 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

1344 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 32 XT

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

5.2 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

148W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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